Patrick Remy, critic and director of Steidl France, reveals his ideal library: ”10 books? How do you pick ten of your favorite books from a library that must hold… how many? My God! I have never counted them, and always refused the idea. It is not a race… 3000, more? It’s a my...

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“An American Prayer” is a poem by Jim Morrison, who would have traded rock stardom for recognition as a legitimate artistic figure in a hearbeat. Seven years after his death, “An American Prayer” was the name of a posthumous album of his poetry recorded to music by the remaining Do...

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Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography highlights the work of 17 South African photographers, all of whom live and work in the country and whose images were made between 2000 and 2010. Each photographer is represented by one or more proje...

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The exhibition “New Perspectives” is a prelude to a future collaboration between the Ann and Jurgen Wilde Foundation and the Pinakothek der Moderne. Its emphasis lies on avant-garde photography that forms a major focal point of the collection. Each of the nine protagonists,...

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This year’s International Photo Festival will run until 13 June 2011 in Knokke-Heist under the theme of Future Portraits. The festival will zoom in on theatrical portrait photography and the way in which contemporary mediums are used to breathe new life into the genre.

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The presentation made by France’s Culture and Communication Minister about the program for the upcoming 42nd edition of the Rencontres d’Arles was far from accidental, rather it confirmed the Minister’s dedication to photography. In closing, he revealed that several announcements would ...

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The pictures taken by British photographer Jimmy Hare in Ciudad Juárez in 1911 lead one to question whether there isn’t a book missing about photography and revolution, that would include pictures taken during this historic period?

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In order to promote creation, the Photography section of the Academie de Beaux-Arts created in 2007, through the initiative of Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, a photography prize bearing his name. It involves professional French photographers working in France, with no limit to their age, who are give...

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